Unknown, 1787 October 27

Female LO 27-1787

Letter from Hearn dated 2/5/1990 states: “An old lady in
Blymouth said that when she was a girl she heard the
country folk out Bristol way tell a gaastly tale of a
wOman who was executed thereabout in ' the distant Past'
According to the story the father of an illegitimate
child refused to acknowledge his paternity and bagked out
of a marriage promise whereupon the mother avenged hersel
on him by killing the baby and preparing it in a stew
which she fed to the evasive father, Its not hard to
imagine that a crime @f such extreme heinousness would
{mbed intself in the local folklore."

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Female 10 ~27-1787

Letter from Hearn dated 2/5/1990 states: “An old lady in
Blymouth said that when she was a girl she heard the
country folk out Bristol way tell a guastly tale of a
wOman who was executed thereabout in ' the distant Past'
According to the story the father of an illegitimate
child refused to acknowledge his paternity and bagked out
of a marriage promise whereupon the mother avenged herself
on him by killing the baby and preparing it in a stew
which she fed to the evasive father, Its not hard to
imagine that a crime af such extreme heinousness would
imbed intself in the local folklore."

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Female 10 -27-1787

Letter from Hearn dated 2/5/1990 states; "An old lady in
Plymouth said that when she was a girl she heard the
country folk out Bristol way tell a ghastly tule of a
wOman Who was executed thereabout in ' the distant Past’
According to the story the father of an illegitimate
child refused to acknowledge his paternity and baaked out
of a marriage promise whereupon the mother avenged herself
on him by killing the baby and preparing it in a stew
which she fed to the evasive father, Its not hard to
imagine that a crime af such extreme heinousness would
imbed intself in the local folklore."

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